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Choirs of angels painting in Italian choir books, 1300-1500 Barbara Drake Boehm

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Boehm, Barbara Drake
Contributor:
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Service books (Music)--Italy--Illustrations--Exhibitions.
Service books (Music).
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--Italy--Exhibitions.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Italian--15th century--Exhibitions.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Italian.
Music--Manuscripts--Exhibitions.
Music.
Service books (Music)--Illustrations--Exhibitions.
Music--Manuscripts.
Italy.
Genre:
Exhibition catalogs
Physical Description:
1 online resource (64 pages) illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, music
Other Title:
Metropolitan Museum of Art bulletin
Place of Publication:
New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art New Haven Yale University Press [2008]
System Details:
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Summary:
"This book describes and illustrates the Metropolitan Museum's collection of nearly 40 illuminations from Italian choral manuscripts. Representing the work of Gothic and Renaissance masters both celebrated and anonymous, these precious paintings in miniature - with their compelling narrative, brilliant color, and shining gold - bear witness to exceptional aesthetic accomplishment. The choir books they illuminate are a rich source of information about the development of chant, whose unexpected transcendent tonalities have abiding appeal today. They also serve as primary sources for the study of the lives of religious communities and of the philosophy and faith that infused medieval Europe, offering a glimpse of Italy at the dawn of the Renaissance."--Jacket
Notes:
Issued in connection with an exhibition held November 25, 2008-April 12, 2009, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
"Reprint of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (Winter 2009)"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-64)
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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Other Format:
Print version Boehm, Barbara Drake. Choirs of angels
OCLC:
608889861

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